It is Saturday evening...I have ELO in the background and sake in my glass and the day was only eight and a half hours long so I suppose it could have been worse.

I was reading an article about evil...a different subject , I admit, but an interesting one none the less...

The author wanted his readers to believe that evil does not exist but is simply an expression of the lack of good...in short...the amount of evil can be quantified by the lack of good...

In his argument...he stated that god was all powerful and that some people believe that since god is so...that god must have created evil...he made the argument that god would not create evil but man would see evil as an absence of gods love and interaction...

I read the paper this morning...among the headlines was a spot about a man who beat his girlfriends child to death because it would not stop crying...a man was finally caught and charged with raping two teenagers in his basement outfitted to resemble a dungeon...the federal government is spending millions to track down people who are raping children live on the internet because the child porn industry is growing stale and simple snap shots are not bringing in the revenue they used to...

they tell me god is all knowing and all powerful...he knows every sparrow that falls...why would he not know your name...

they tell me god spoke the world into existance and granted life to man because he willed it to be so...

they tell me god knows EVERYTHING...
god...

if you really knew about these things and still allowed them to happen...

evil is not a lack of god...

evil is god